chief是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 领袖; 部门主任; a. 主要的, 首席的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had two masts and all the sails and rigging of an ordinary clipper, which would enable her to take advantage of every favorable wind, though her chief reliance was on her mechanical power.
-- The crew, consisting of twenty-five men, including the captain and chief officer, were all from Dumbartonshire, experienced sailors, and all belonging to the Glenarvan estate; in fact, it was a regular clan, and they did not forget to carry with them the traditional bagpipes.
-- But while John Mangles made the stowage and provisioning of the yacht his chief business, he did not forget to fit up the rooms of Lord and Lady Glenarvan for a long voyage.
-- And the chief officer?
-- It is Mr. Burdness, the chief officer, that I am talking to at present."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You look like a general who is planning a battle with his chief of the staff.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You are a sensible fellow, and I have been counting on you; for, in this matter, that, that ' 'Yes, that's the chief thing,' said Gania, helping the gen-eral out of his difficulties again, and curling his lips in an envenomed smile, which he did not attempt to conceal.
-- 'Yes, of course it is the chief thing!'
-- One day, when he had rid-den over to the town to see a creditor, the chief peasant of his village followed him shortly after, with the news that his house had been burnt down, and that his wife had perished with it, but his children were safe.
-- she retorted, unexpectedly; 'and that is my chief fault, for one ought not to be always kind.
-- He, too, had to sleep on an old sofa, a narrow, uncomfortable thing with a torn rug over it; his chief duty being to look after his father, who needed to be watched more and more every day.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But of this we will take thought hereafter; for the present, let us draw a ship into the sea, and find a crew for her expressly; let us put a hecatomb on board, and let us send Chryseis also; further, let some chief man among us be in command, either Ajax, or Idomeneus, or yourself, son of Peleus, mighty warrior that you are, that we may of-fer sacrifice and appease the the anger of the god.'
-- The fierce Abantes held Euboea with its cities, Chalcis, Eretria, Histiaea rich in vines, Cerinthus upon the sea, and the rock-perched town of Dium; with them were also the men of Carystus and Styra; Elephenor of the race of Mars was in command of these; he was son of Chalcodon, and chief over all the Abantes.
-- With them in command was Eury-alus, son of king Mecisteus, son of Talaus; but Diomed was chief over them all.
-- Therefore, let each chief give orders to his own people, setting them severally in array and leading them forth to battle.'
-- He then took his seat on the top of Pergamus, while mur-derous Mars went about among the ranks of the Trojans, cheering them on, in the likeness of fleet Acamas chief of the Thracians.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No doubt their chief aim was artistic torture, but some at least of the inquisitors must have had a touch of scientific curiosity.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: 'Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves.
-- 'What talk is this to the chief hunter of the village?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He loved to make advances to women, to have them succumb to his charms, not because he was a cold-blooded, dark, scheming villain, but because his inborn desire urged him to that as a chief delight.
-- Now he was off, however, and it was back to pathos, with Carrie as the chief figure.
-- Hurstwood walked the floor, mentally arranging the chief points of his situation.
-- He really thought, after a year, that her chief expression in life was finding its natural channel in household duties.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He says: 'On the scutcheon we'll have a bend OR in the dexter base, a saltire MURREY in the fess, with a dog, couchant, for common charge, and under his foot a chain embattled, for slavery, with a chevron VERT in a chief engrailed, and three invected lines on a field AZURE, with the nombril points rampant on a dancette indented; crest, a runaway nigger, SABLE, with his bundle over his shoulder on a bar sinister; and a couple of gules for supporters, which is you and me; motto, MAGGIORE FRETTA, MINORE OTTO.
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